Comments about ‘Poll: Support up for raising taxes on rich to avoid fiscal cliff’

I think that this was Obama's plan all along. It is to bad that people just
were blind by him and his smooth talking and promises that he is not keeping. To
me it is sad but now it is just to late and we all need to pay the price for
what others have done and will do. God Bless America

@ Neanderthal: Since there will still be other sources of income, that whole
"run the government for 8 days" thing is a red herring. (How long will
the government run if we don't raise taxes?)

Since not all the
deficit is related to Obamacare, that also is a red herring.

There
needs to be a balanced approach of tax hikes and spending cuts - which is what
is being proposed. (If we just do cuts without tax increases, how much will
that reduce the deficit? Of course, the answer to that depends on what is cut
and by how much, but most programs people are willing to put on the chopping
block add very little to the deficit and reducing them or even cutting them
entirely will do little to help - and they might make things worse.)

How about cutting congressional salaries, pensions, budgets, and many other
benefits for lawmakers? If my Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid are on
the table, why are the same benefits for Congress not equally on the table?
Belt tightening has taken place all over corporate America, so why can't
belt tightening occur on the beltway?

It seems to me that what these polls really say is please do something that does
not impact me. I do not make over $250,000 per year so it is ok to raise taxes
there. I will be impacted by cuts to Social Security and Medicare so leave
those alone. We live in a republic rather than a democracy so that our elected
officials can make difficult choices that are in the interest of the country.
We need courage on the part of our elected leaders to acknowledge that
entitlements hold the key to solvency and future economic prosperity. While I
am fine with a tax or revenue increase from the top 2%, it may be necessary to
push the shared sacrifice down the chart even further through increases to many
of the rest of us or cuts to the entitlements we enjoy or hope to enjoy. Now is
not the time to govern by polls. It is the time to do what is right for the
country as a whole as hard to define as that may be.

Ahh yes, but Obama needs a straw man, someone to blame for his miserable
failures. Who else could he blame than the "rich"? Those people who
already pay nearly 80% of all federal income taxes. He certainly can't
blame the 47%, those who pay no federal income taxes, could he? Never mind that
taxing the "rich" will not even begin to solve our deficit problems for
more than 8 days, its the lie that got him elected and re-elected! The bad news
is now we have to face the truth; we don't have the money to fund all
Obama's entitlements! Nobody does and more smoke and mirrors from the White
House doesn't change that fact!

The people have spoken! Let it be! I hope House Republicans just get out of the
way and let fate take its course. Let Obama, the man we voted for, do his thing.
When things are really bad four years from now, when have incurred
insurmountable debt, when the US dollar is worthless, when all the rich people
and their businesses have moved to China, they will no longer be able to blame
Republicans. Let's just get this over with. It's going to happen.
Might as well happen sooner than later.

Keep singing his praises that its OK to steal someones personal property. When
the rich are not rich then the socialists/communists will come after the middle
class.Obama wants taxes raised on everyone but he needs to start with class
warfare. Remember trickle down.I hope all of you that work for a rich guy ends
up in the bread line and sooner rather than later. Instead of making a rich man
poor it should be make a poor man rich. Obamas plan does not have that in
mind.His is to make everyone dependant on the Government. He want to bring this
Country to a point where it is just one of the other countries instead of the
County we have been.

Watch words and tag lines are among the favorite devices of propagandists.
Fiscal Cliff is an excellent case in point. Ask any one, even politicians what
it means and you will have many different answers.

The reality is
there is no such thing as the "fiscal cliff" but rather a fictitious
point of argument to force a predetermined outcome, the perfect Marxist
application of the Hegelian Dialectic.

We would all do well to look
at the much bigger picture and see that the United States is fiscally bankrupt
and not by accident but by design. Obama has been working the class warfare this
whole time, another Marxist strategy. We cannot be distracted the from the very
real peril of the total destruction of the United States by bickering over
something as ridicules as a phony "fiscal cliff".

Wow! So more people are starting to believe that someone else should pay more
for the services they are getting?

Maybe we should test this out at
restaurants. Everyone order whatever they want and after we are done eating, we
can vote for who pays for the food. I guess with the deficit, the people who
pay for everything that night can pay for last nights meals as well.

Are we past the tipping point? Have the takers reached a majority? What
happens if Obama gets the House for his last 2 years?

Raising taxes is never the answer when facing a economic catastrophe,
that's just ingnoring the problem. Even the rich can't bail us out of
this mess.

And please stop proposing programs that only the rich can
afford like green energy (who can afford an electric car that needs a $10,000
batter replaced every 5 years), healthcare (the rich will buy their doctors
while the rest of us will have to settle for the "system") and bailouts
for failed green companies and mismanaged corporations (bailouts only went to
already wealthy CEO's)...

Pres. Obama has no plan for America an
it's prosperity. It's obvious becaus what he puts on the table his own
party members even won't vote for. We don't need anymore evidence,
it's pretty clear we are being lied too.

On Tuesday, FedEx Chairman and CEO Fred Smith, an adviser to Sen. John
McCain's presidential campaign, said that the notion that tax hikes on the
richest Americans would kill jobs was simply "mythology."

Monday, a gathering of the nation's top defense executives took a
surprising turn when they endorsed tax rate increases on the wealthy and cuts of
up to $150 billion to the Pentagon's budget. Top executives from Northrop
Grumman, Pratt & Whitney, TASC and RTI International Metals appeared at the
National Press Club at an event organized by the Aerospace Industries
Association, the top defense contractor lobbyist.

David Langstaff,
CEO of TASC, said "In the near term, [income tax rates] need to go up some,
This is a fairness issue -- there needs to be recognition that we’re not
collecting enough revenue. In the last decade we’ve fought two wars
without raising taxes. So I think it does need to go up.”

AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson, who was also at the meeting, said in a
statement that a deal "will require a compromise involving an increase in
both tax rates and revenue."

Thank you. I was so against raising taxes, but since you
just appealed to a bunch of rich CEOs who think taxes should be raised, out of
fairness, I feel so much more at ease about it. Just like when 40 billionaire
Warren Buffett says we should pay more taxes, out of fairness, I absolutely,
wholeheartedly agree with him. Because when you're a CEO who makes (and
more importantly hoards) millions or billions, you know all about fairness and
equity (no pun intended), right? Who's side are you on?

I know republicans want to cut entitlements, but why do they only want to cut
entitlements for the poor and middle class? I have not seen them propose
cutting the entitlement program for big oil.

They also propose
closing loopholes, like the mortgage deduction and charitable giving. Those are
the only tax deductions most middle class Americans have. Why not close
loopholes like the ones for private jets.

When you look at the
republican plan (if you can call it that) it hits middle and low income
Americans the hardest, and as would be expected does very little to wealthy
Americans.

Republicans assume that most Americans are cannot see
through their little bait and switch game.

* Annual family income: $21,700* Money the family spent:
$38,200* New debt on the credit card: $16,500 New income from taxes
on your rich neighbors: $150.00* Outstanding balance on the credit card:
$162,560* Total budget cuts so far: $3.85Got it???

Lets just raise taxes on everyone making less than $250,000 and no taxes on
those making above that because they are the job creators and entertainers and
have suffered so much in their altruistic view of humanity. It's about time
we all give back to those who have given more, and when they have all of the
money, the plutacracy complete, we can all eat cake.

Hey Mountanman, you are right. But there are a large number of parasites in the
moocher class that do not care about those numbers. They only believe that Obama
is not going to tax them so they are fine with his approach. But they will find
out that they will be impacted as this nations economy goes into a tailspin.

I am a member of the evil rich that makes more than $250k per year. Go
ahead and try to tax me to death. Believe me when I say that my employees will
suffer more than I will because they will lose all of their income before I lose
all of mine. And I have a lot more in reserve than any one of them has.

I started my business and risked everything I had to make it successful.
My employees risked nothing. Yet every one of them makes more working for me
than they have ever made before. But if you think they will somehow do better as
I do worse then congratulations, you are fully qualified to be an "Obama
voter"! And you will pay a very heavy price for your ignorance.